Fact: TENS OF THOUSANDS! Of young women, and
a few young men, will be raped on college campuses this academic year.
Fact: The vast
majority of those rapes will be committed by a very small number of serial
rapist students, a disproportionate number of whom are popular athletes on
campus and/or members of a few fraternities. Almost none will even be expelled,
let alone prosecuted.
Fact: College
administrators and college police, and even local police, will usually do
little or nothing about this – and in fact will belittle the victims, threaten
them, and try to talk them out of any legal action, all to “protect” the image of
and donations to the college.
Want to know more? See the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground. College administrators, board members and
powerful alumni are trying to suppress it, and deny it is accurate – but it is.
People who are (rightly) upset about Donald Trump’s boorish
and sexist locker room comments ought by rights to be rioting in the streets
about college rape and rapists who are never prosecuted, and hanging effigies of college deans and presidents from
lamp posts. But they aren’t.
Among the other institutional, bureaucratic, and political abuses that are driving much of the current voter anger this year, this issue of college rape, and especially the institutional cover ups about it, ought to be prominent. It is every bit as bad as the child abuses in the Catholic Church, and it ought to stoke as much anger.
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